If you’re a developer or an architect who has taken online classes and read everything you can to understand cloud-native, replatforming, and modernizing apps, it’s time to roll up your sleeves and code. Be empowered to build better software with Pivotal’s Platform Acceleration Lab (PAL).

One Week of Cloud-Native Immersion

The first week of the PAL is Cloud-Native Developer (CND)—an immersive, best practices course for building Cloud-Native applications. In a practitioner-led setting, Pivotal experts will take you through building a single application and then evolving the application to a Cloud-Native app running on Pivotal Cloud Foundry. During the Cloud-Native Developer course, you’ll learn the fundamentals of Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Concourse (CI/CD), Application Architecture, Spring Boot, and Spring Cloud Services—as well as be exposed to many of Pivotal’s core practices.

Cloud-Native Architect (CNA) is the comprehensive three-week PAL program. This immersive, best practices course explores replatforming and modernizing apps In a practitioner-led setting, Pivotal experts will take you through modernizing and moving existing apps to run on Pivotal Cloud Foundry. During the Cloud-Native Architecture course, you’ll also learn the fundamentals of Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Concourse (CI/CD), Application Architecture, Spring Boot, and Spring Cloud Services—as well as be exposed to many of Pivotal’s core practices. CND is included in CNA.

Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Spring, and Spring Cloud Services are the de-facto platform and application development frameworks for leading brands driving digital transformation. We make sure you get to experience them.

Identify, codify, and leverage reusable patterns for modernization across a portfolio

Know when (and when not) to break microservices out of the monolith

Program Requirements

Anyone interested in becoming a cloud-native architect should attend. PAL is designed for lead developers and coding-architects because you’ll need to write code, have done some advance work with modern software, and have familiarity with design patterns, domain-driven design, component-based architecture, and evolutionary architecture.

“The course’s progression was well thought out and the labs continually challenged the participants. So many of the technical workshops simply skim over major concepts, our PAL instructors did not.”